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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that drive the current emphasis on short-term investment returns. Moreover, they analyze the forces at work in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
describes the strategic decision-making process regarding the introduction of fleet management in its early planning stages. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
what they should decide. Paper: http://hbr.org/2012/12/how-much-is-sweat-equity-worth/ar/1 When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams Authors:Polzer, Jeff, and Lisa Kwan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Publication:Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, Inc., 2007 Abstract This set of insightful papers demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter explores the role that firms have played over time View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
provider" offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage, and asset management services to clients in the infrastructure sector. With nearly 50% of its employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
board and executive management team are in clear agreement on goals, strategy, and actions. Always involved in rapidly changing environments, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
our discussions and suggests directions for research to investigate its validity. Publisher's link: http://pps.sagepub.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/10/1/3.full.pdf+html February 2015 Antitrust Bulletin The Influence of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
education nonprofit wants nothing less than to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. (8,230 visits) How to Be a Digital Platform Leader The most valuable companies in the world have one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
box gets us new ideas. On the other hand, I cringe at the thought of effectively managing a ‘herd of cats.’” Santosh Patil added that “as much as I like the rebels in my team, it is essential for me to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
around the strategic direction that the company is taking would require giving different types of information to board members and having different discussions in board meetings, but the effort to revamp the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
talented people and the knowledge they possess. In today's economy, that is the constraining—and therefore strategic—resource. The implications for top management are profound. First, human-resources issues... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
financial management advice. But startups often run into issues outside those categories, everything from what to ask potential hires in a job interview to analyzing sales funnels. Experienced investors have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
strategy and more on the processes by which the company allocates resources. Top managers must know the track record of the people who are making resource allocation proposals; recognize the strategic issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
opportunities and promise where others see only defeat.” At each stage of aviation's business life cycle—start-up, growth, maturity, decline, rebirth—new types of leaders emerged, such as entrepreneur C.E. Woolman at Delta in the 1920s... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
colleagues highlights the pivotal role played by such gatherings in creating winners and losers in the platform world. “Platform Diffusion at Temporary Gatherings: Social Coordination and Ecosystem... View Details